Ironing-pad.



lIAMES E. CHURCH, OF CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS.

IRONING-PAD Application filed February 4, 1907. Serial No. 355,752

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMns E. CHURCH, of Cambridge, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Ironing-Pads; and I hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, andV exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

This invention refers to improvements in ironing pads whereby lubricant with which the pad is supplied may be delivered to a heated iron when said iron rests on the pad or When the iron is passed over the pad.

The main object of the invention is to improve the construction of ironing pads of this nature.

Other objects of the invention will be apparent from the following description.

The invention consists in the improved ironing pad as shall hereinafter be more fully described and pointed out in the claims.

Figure l, is an edge view of the improved ironing pad with an iron, indicated, resting thereon. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the pad.

Similar numbers of reference designate corresponding parts throughout.

In carrying this invention into practice, to provide an improved ironing pad at small cost, I construct such pad with a base member 5 having transverse ribs G-6 and concavities 7-7, and a top member 8 having transverse ribs 9 9 and the concavities lO-lO between said ribs connected to said base member 5 and supported by the corrugated central member of which the upper curved portions ll-ll are secured to the inner surfaces of the ribs 9-9, of the upper member 8, and the lower curved portions 12-12 are secured to the inner surfaces of the ribs G-G of the lower base member 5 while the intermediate portions 13-l3 `form supporting struts, whereby the member 8 is Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 13, 190'?.

supported, and the spaces between said struts form transverse channels, through which airimay circulate as an insulating medium to protect the ironing board, or table, from the heat of the iron.

The several members of the ironing pad are formed of paper stock and such material is preferably treated with lubricant by placing the pad in a bath of lubricant in which spermaceti, or other similar wax like material, is present whereby the fibrous material of the paper stock is stiffened and the members 5 and 8 are impregnated and coated with such lubricant. When a heated iron is passed over the member 8 of this pad, a portion of the lubricant is delivered from the pad to the heated surface of the iron, and the ribs 9-9 act as Scrapers to remove the surplus lubricant from the iron as the iron is moved over said ribs.

From time to time the pad may be reversed so that, at times the member 5 may become the upper member and the lubricant' carried by this member may be delivered tothe surface of an iron passed thereover.

Having thus described my invention I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent.

1. An ironing pad of the nature described, comprising upper and lower members having transverse ribs and coucavities between the ribs, and a central corrugated member the corrugatons of which, are secured in the concave inner' walls of said ribs,

2. An ironing pad ot' the nature described, comprising upper and lower members corrugated to form a series of transverse ribs and pockets between said ribs, and a strut member having a series of inclined struts united by convex shoulders which are located und Secured in the inner concavities of the ribs of the upper and lower members respectively, the whole being treated with lubricant as and for the purpose described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JAMES E. CHURCH.

Witnesses HENRY J. MILLER, BLANcnu L. Ginninu. 

